Dawkins launches furious rant at Amazon over 'illiterate' manual

It's not just those labouring under the "God delusion" who provoke the ire of Professor Richard Dawkins. The outspoken atheist has launched a rant at online retailer Amazon over an instruction manual he called an "illiterate disgrace".

It's not just those labouring under the "God delusion" who provoke the ire of Professor Richard Dawkins. The outspoken atheist has launched a rant at online retailer Amazon over an instruction manual he called an "illiterate disgrace".

The evolutionary biologist, pictured, posted a scathing review of the instructions for his DVD writer. The "appallingly bad" manual for the AmazonBasics USB 2.0 8x DVD Writer External Optical Drive (Black) was a "disgrace", he wrote.

Urging Amazon to "please hire somebody who knows how to write at least ONE human language", in a tweet linking to his review, Prof Dawkins began by dissecting the exhortation to "terminate software program used on optional drive". "Well, which do you mean, 'optical' or 'optional'?," wrote Mr Dawkins.